Applied Sociology: A Treatise on the Conscious Improvement of Society by SocietyGinn, 1906 - 384 pages This work and its predecessor, Pure Sociology, constitute together a system of sociology, and these, with Dynamic Sociology, The Psychic Factors of Civilization, and the Outlines of Sociology, make up a more comprehensive system of social philosophy. Should any reader acquaint himself with the whole, he will find it not only consistent with itself, but progressive in the sense that each successive volume carries the subject a step farther with a minimum of repetition or duplicate treatment. The central thought is that of a true science of society, capable, in the measure that it approaches completeness, of being turned to the profit of mankind. If there is one respect in which it differs more than in others from rival systems of philosophy it is in its practical character of never losing sight of the end or purpose, nor of the possibilities of conscious effort. It is a reaction against the philosophy of despair that has come to dominate even the most enlightened scientific thought. It aims to point out a remedy for the general paralysis that is creeping over the world, and which a too narrow conception of the law of cosmic evolution serves rather to increase than to diminish. It proclaims the efficacy of effort, provided it is guided by intelligence. It would remove the embargo laid upon human activity by a false interpretation of scientific determinism, and, without having recourse to the equally false conception of a power to will, it insists upon the power to act. - Preface. |
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Page vii
... possessed by society . INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY - - Thought , to be 40 Historical materialism and intellectualism . Economic interpretation of history . Ideological interpretation of history . - RECONCILIATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND ...
... possessed by society . INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY - - Thought , to be 40 Historical materialism and intellectualism . Economic interpretation of history . Ideological interpretation of history . - RECONCILIATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND ...
Page ix
... possess the same degree of native intellectual capacity as the higher . — Difference consists wholly in the equipment . heritage . Social heredity . The intellectually disinherited . sophisms . - — - False appearances . - - The ...
... possess the same degree of native intellectual capacity as the higher . — Difference consists wholly in the equipment . heritage . Social heredity . The intellectually disinherited . sophisms . - — - False appearances . - - The ...
Page xv
... possessing general truths can dispose of special ones .. The Order of Nature . The most general knowledge the most practical . -Should be presented in its logical order . — The logical order is that of causal connection . — Causality ...
... possessing general truths can dispose of special ones .. The Order of Nature . The most general knowledge the most practical . -Should be presented in its logical order . — The logical order is that of causal connection . — Causality ...
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... possess a power of bettering things , it is our paramount duty to use it and to train all our intellect and energy to this supreme service of our kind . HUXLEY . - Humanum paucis vivit genus . LUCANUS . PROGRESS VERSUS EVOLUTION We have ...
... possess a power of bettering things , it is our paramount duty to use it and to train all our intellect and energy to this supreme service of our kind . HUXLEY . - Humanum paucis vivit genus . LUCANUS . PROGRESS VERSUS EVOLUTION We have ...
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... possess the handsomest women and the finest oxen . With the progress of civilization society inter- fered in this policy and set up in its place what is known as civil , legal , or political justice , which is a reversal of the law of ...
... possess the handsomest women and the finest oxen . With the progress of civilization society inter- fered in this policy and set up in its place what is known as civil , legal , or political justice , which is a reversal of the law of ...
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